River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-08

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| Eindling- wood, and the dismantled walls,
/ floors, and timbers were piled upon the
| street Nlne-tenths of the people of Fair
| mount are opposed to the saloon, and they
have given evidence that they consider any
means justifiable TO PREVENTS being built.
About a year ago Mrs. Eliza Meal
lister. an elderly lady of Terre Haute, Ind,
was mysteriOusly lost from a Chicago a.
/ Alton train between st. Louis and Kansas
/ City. Her remains have been found on the
/ Missouri river bank, Just below the Saline
/ boundary. The only way in which she
| could be identified was a ring upon her left
/ hand bearing her name. The flesh was
| entirely gone and only her bleached bones
| were found. At tht. time of her departure
/ she had a gold watch. money and a check
/ for SOD Ii is believed she fell or was
/ thrown from the train crossing the river at
/ Glasgow.
A deadly scourage is affecting Nc
Dowell County, West Virginia and South
western Virginia The drouth has made the
peculiar disease which has several times
/ previously followed this state of affairs
1 and which is supposed to be result of
minerals in the water, has broken out. In
| the Dead Horse cave neighborhoOd there
are over 100 cases, with 30 deaths. Not a
I family has escaped. Crops are neglected
I and farm work is az a standstill, ii requiring
/ the entire time of every individual to care
/ for the sick and dead Ii is estimated
I that 200 people have died in Mcdowell
county alone, in the last four weeks, from
I the disease.
The last session of the convention of
charities and corrections at Omaha was
devoted to the committee on charity. Mr.
Kellogg, of New York, presented a very
/ elaborate chart, in which he showed that
/ there are tifty-twO cities having charity or
/ CARNATIONS, representing a population of
/ S.GOO.OOO, with nearly 5OO,OOO registered
| paupers After the usual complimentary
and the next president. DIR. HOyt, of New
I York. was installed. The conference then
adjourned, 10 meet next July in Buffalo.
Phillip ID. Armour, of Chicago, when
asked if il were true that the dressed beef
men and railroads were scooping in all the
profits of the trade, leaving the cattle rails
ers, the retail butchers and the poor con-
sumers out in the cold, be said: There is
absolutely nothing to all this Outcry. No
business is run so close as this dressed beef
business. 1t is like weighing gold dust. [
/ think the railroads get better price out of
/ il than anybody else, or than they do out of
any other business in the world. There is
something in that part of it."
At Ingersoll, Ontario, the largest ell
/ ephant of the Robbins circus got away
I from the circus and swan across Smiths
pond He then went through the town at a
/ lively pace turned west and followed the
river some distance, destroying any fences
| that were in his road, got into a field where
I there We're number of cattle, and after
/ chasing them around for a while got on the
/ Grand Trunk railroad track and after pur-
| suit of seversl miles by number of men
and two other elephants was captured.
a Cincinnati, Ohio paper says that
I Receiver Armstrong, who is in charge of
/ the Fidelity National Bank, has prepared
l a petition TO be filed against the late
directors of that bank, Eugene Zimmerman,
\ Henry Pogue, W. II. Chatfield and Briggs
Swift, for a sum aggregating between
/ - uGl0O0 and S3,O00,OO. They will be
| charged with having betrayed their trusts
/ as.directOrs and having become individually
I liable for the losses of depositors. The
document is vOluminous and is printed.
Directors Mathews, Gahr and Harper are
also defendants in the action
Bradstreet's says that special tele-
grams from leading points of distribution
throughout the country record considerable
I Improvement in the volume OF staple mer
I chandise moving as compared with week
I ago. There are fewer complaints of re-
stricted buying at the interior owing to
damage 10y the drOuth, and Chicago, St
Louis Kansas CITY, St Joseph. St Paul
I and Minneapolis. which supply the great
! grain belt report the best trade known for
msnths.
At Morgan, Texas. and vicinity
heavy rains have fallen and the damage is
estimated at thousands OF dollars. Both
the Texas Central and the Gulf, Colorado
/ a Sante Fe railways are badly damaged,
I and trains viii be cut off for many days
l Four business hOnses and nine residences
there have been washed away. At W hitney
| and Meriden many houses were washed
away man was drowned at Meriden
I The loss to the railroad is 100000.
AT the City of Mexico, on the 29th, a
brisk earthquake shock was experienced
about O'Clock a. m, agitating houses and
/ making the people dizZv. The shock was
/ not severe and was most felt in the outlying
portions of the city. Thomas b. Connery,
| secretary of the United States legation,
noted the shock at 6:43 o'clock and about
the same time it was felt sharply at Castle
Chapultepec, where President Diaz and his
/ family are residing.
September 5, WAS very generally OBJ
served throughout the country as Labor
| Day. and the various UniOrs and Trades
/ Assemblys made il complete holiday.
I The professions at New York and Chicago
/ had 25.O10 men in line, and at other places
/ the demonstrations were large. In New
\ York and Brooklyn the day was observed
/ as a legal holiday, the banks, stock and
produce exchanges being closed in honor of
the occasion
The imports of specie at New York
last week amounted to S2,5l9,663. almost
entirely gold, o which S466,0O0 came from
! South America, and 8. D.. fsi3 from Europe.
4 The exports were $50, $40, of which $1,000
I was in gold consigned To South American
4 ssv#- nd "a S5tyar this El5p
/ went % Europe and =, S96 to South America.
/ The imports Of merch .ndise for the week
were ,56l 80, of which 8, f2S, $50 were dry
I goo S.
Under orders from Sheriff Matson the
cells Of all the prisoners in the county jai
/ at Chicago. were searched. In the cell oc
I cupied by A. X Parsons. the anarchist, was
l found razor. This was pOunced upon bv
| the officers Parsons claimed that he had
il for the purpose OF shaving himself, but
| the Iiece of steel was cOufiscated neverthe-
I less. though the condemned anarchist cursed
and swOre when it was taken from him.
..Blinky" Morgan. the burglar who
is now in Jail at Ravenna, o., for murder
ing Detective Hulligan. and who, while
/ being captured at Alpena. Mich, short
time since fatally shot Sheriff Lynch, has
| been indicted in Michigan for robbery of
I the postoffice and jewelry store at Hart,
O. ana county, NTH
4 coal train plunged down an EN-
bankment at Leavenworth, (Kans) juno
ton. The engineer, J. Munden of Wamego,
was instantly killed. The firman. Frank
/ Davis received injuries from which he died
/ a few hours later. The head brakeman,
Tom Brown. was also killed The cause was
a misplaced switch
Gov. Adams and Gen. Crook reached
an agreement at Meeker, by which two
companies Of United States troops will be
kept on the line between the Uintah reser-
walton snd Colorado. for the protection of
settlers and to keep the Utes out of the lat
ter state.
Efforts viii be made at Montreal to
procure the Indictment of Joseph Hickson,
general manager Of the Grand Trunk rosd,
on a charge OF Manslaughter. Recently two
lmen were killed on the line, and the coro-